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RockRaven

(18,580 posts)
2. I've noticed a bunch of them had beards during the sedition but are clean shaven in the mugshots
Sat Jan 9, 2021, 05:53 PM
Jan 2021

The Pelosi office/desk guy, and the Speakers podium guy, for example.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't, in a way.

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kimbutgar

(26,636 posts)
4. They probably shaved those beards to disguise themselves
Sat Jan 9, 2021, 05:57 PM
Jan 2021

But too many people recognized and reported on them.

You will probably look handsomer without a beard. And your partner will probably kiss you more because your face is not itchy!

Karadeniz

(24,716 posts)
5. You're probably not alone! On the bright side, men don't realize that most women have an
Sat Jan 9, 2021, 05:57 PM
Jan 2021

Apparently genetic preference for clean. Before recent head shaving, women didn't mind balding heads at all. Bald heads looked clean! I'm pretty well grossed out by full, longish beards...one just has no idea what might be lurking there! Just my opinion...

Blues Heron

(8,186 posts)
6. me too - ditching my viking horns fur hat thing
Sat Jan 9, 2021, 05:57 PM
Jan 2021

Kept getting caught on the seatbelt anyway....

 

vercetti2021

(10,481 posts)
9. I'm keeping mine...for now
Sat Jan 9, 2021, 05:59 PM
Jan 2021

It's my denial beard as most transgender women called it. I'm fugly and just can't lose it.

EarthFirst

(3,907 posts)
10. Don't let them co-opt the beard!
Sat Jan 9, 2021, 06:00 PM
Jan 2021

Although; I did shave mine today as well; so there’s that...

Paladin

(32,170 posts)
11. I was toying with growing a beard, but I've changed my mind.
Sat Jan 9, 2021, 06:03 PM
Jan 2021

For exactly the same reason you're getting rid of yours. Shaving's a hassle---but it beats looking like a brain-dead white nationalist dipshit. Just another thing the creeps have ruined for us.

Claustrum

(5,052 posts)
13. I threw out all of my red caps ever since 2015.
Sat Jan 9, 2021, 06:18 PM
Jan 2021

You will never see me in public with a red cap on for the rest of my life.

Paladin

(32,170 posts)
14. Imagine a public figure so loathsome, he fucks up an entire COLOR for decent people.
Sat Jan 9, 2021, 06:37 PM
Jan 2021

What a nightmare we're living through.

Generic Brad

(14,374 posts)
15. Ted Cruz better not show up clean shaven tomorrow
Sat Jan 9, 2021, 06:38 PM
Jan 2021

Maybe shave off only the left side so we know it's you.

KT2000

(21,891 posts)
16. Did you see the AP photographer
Sat Jan 9, 2021, 06:39 PM
Jan 2021

that was accused of being "antifa" being thrown over a balcony after being shoved around, push on the ground, and having his life threatened. He was wearing all black so they thought he was anti-trump. The civil war has its uniforms now.

 

aidbo

(2,328 posts)
17. I hate shaving, but I have been keeping it trimmed short to accommodate mask wearing.
Sat Jan 9, 2021, 06:40 PM
Jan 2021

Bayard

(28,250 posts)
18. As a person of the female persuasion,
Sat Jan 9, 2021, 11:15 PM
Jan 2021

I have always loved a short, well-kept beard on a man.

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